Rec | BEING GOOD AT NORMAL JOBS

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Unfortunately god granted me with the skills to be great at many useless things. For example I could draw a pretty picture or memorize 157 lines for a play. But now that I have to work a real job I have no idea what is going on. Additionally I am way too sensitive for my own good. This makes learning feel awful. Today one of my co workers talked down to me in a way that made me absolutely shut down. All I can say is that I was not born to be an office girly. I was born to make pretty pictures, but alas. Stay strong to all the artsy people forced to work in a field you don’t really vibe with (or with people who make you feel bad inside)!

@valoorie

Mar 5, 2025

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@abbyscrabbypatty

never let the haters dull your sparkle val ❣️

Mar 6, 2025

@babyoblivi0n

i’m in the same boat rn!!! i have worked at offices before though where people are cool and things feel less serious. wishing that for both of us! <3

Mar 5, 2025

@valoorie

babyoblivi0n YESS I am manifesting a glorious office experience for the both of us (hopefully someday we’ll get to work somewhere we really want to work😭)

Mar 5, 2025

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I have always adored art ever since I was in preschool. I loved creating characters or even doing my own renditions on characters and movies. I even took time during lockdown to work on my interest, putting in hours of learning anatomy and structure. However for a while I've been in a slump of sorts, I've lost creativity and the fuel to continue. It's been hard, especially since drawing and creating is something I've been putting effort to what seems like eons at this point. I even decided to just quit altogether and pursue something else as a dream career. There had become a point where my boyfriend gave me a pep talk and to prove his point he had read me a book he wad reading for philosophy called 'The Republic'; "All great things are precarious... Beautiful things really are difficult" and in his own words told me - "It occurs often throughout the text, anything that is easy will never be beautiful, for if it is easy it won't have the scars and marks of something built through struggle, those scars and marks are the cracks through which beautiful shines most brightly", which I think helped me. For the past month in my art class I've been researching a style called 'Jugendstil' and got a bit of inspiration again. I want to show off what I made because I'm genuinely happy with my product since a hot minute. Anyways moral of the story, don't beat yourself up if you don't find something about you or what you make up to your standards, because beautiful things take time.

@emmita

Feb 27, 2025

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anything but art

once you have to do art for a living, you'll have to force yourself to do it even when you feel like shit, unmotivated and uninspired and man that really sucks the fun out of it. unless you're already really talented artist with strong confidence in your skills and you know you'll find interesting work easily. then maybe. if not, trust me, keep it as an enjoyable hobby for now

@sleepy

Feb 24, 2025

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have the audacity to make bad work

i am really passionate about going to my schools gallery crawl where all the undergrads exhibit their art. The work folks make range from uninformed, to simply bad, to copying other famous artists, or just trying to make it through art school. Genuinely, it’s inspiring to see people try stuff out, get halfway, play around, wrestle with a concept and fail (sometimes hilariously). and bitch it’s necessary! being audacious, playful and unafraid of failure, intrigued or exhausted, it’s all a part of making. being so scared to screw up makes u make no work at all. I made so so so much bad work in school and i presented it proudly. I wanna get back to failing spectacularly and doing it with a grin.